Peng Dehuai

Peng Dehuai

Peng Dehuai (Chinese: 彭德怀; October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974) was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, who served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959. Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary education before his family's poverty forced him to suspend his education at the age of ten, and to work for several years as a manual laborer. When he was sixteen, Peng became a professional soldier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peng Dehuai has received more than 562,574 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Peng Dehuai is the 2,300th most popular politician (up from 2,410th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from China (up from 190th in 2019) and the 119th most popular Chinese Politician.

Peng Dehuai was a military leader in the People's Republic of China. He is most famous for his role in the Korean War, where he commanded the Chinese forces that fought alongside North Korea.